Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting github.com/hashicorp/consul/agent package, versions <1.6.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMHASHICORPCONSULAGENT-548414
  • published 10 Feb 2020
  • disclosed 29 Jan 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/consul/agent to version 1.6.3 or higher.

Overview

github.com/hashicorp/consul/agent is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Unbounded resource usage, triggered by the establishment of many unauthenticated HTTP or RPC connections, may generate excessive load and/or crash the server.

Details

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.5 high
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Red Hat

7.5 high